World Team Badminton Championships for the Sudirman Cup is held in Jakarta alongside the individual World Championships. The trophy is named in honour of Dick Sudirman, founder of PBSI (Badminton Indonesia).

Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games - badminton's debut at the Olympic Games creates new stars and greatly enhances global television coverage. Indonesia wins its first ever Olympic medals (two gold, two silver, one bronze in badminton).

Super Series circuit gets underway - the circuit is made up of 12 of the world's most prestigious open tournaments and pools the international broadcast rights in a new commercial arrangement for the BWF & hosts.

2006

From International Badminton Federation (IBF) to Badminton World Federation (BWF) - the world governing body has a new name.

2006

A new Rally-Point scoring system is implemented - 21 x 3 with setting.

IBF introduces changes to the scoring from 15x3 to 7x5 but the change is short-lived.

2000

Sydney 2000 Olympic Games badminton.

2011

A new Superseries structure implemented with five Premier Superseries events in January.

2012

BWF unveils a new logo on 26 May - contemporary, strong and efficient.

2012

Back to the future - London 2012 Olympic Games badminton is hosted from 27 July - 12 August at Wembley Arena.

2012

Déjà vu - Lin Dan (CHN) and Lee Chong Wei (MAS) face off in the men's singles finals of London 2012 (27 July - 12 August) - a repeat of the Beijing 2008 finals with Lin Dan taking home his second successive gold.

2013

Olympic Champion Poul-Erik Høyer elected President of the BWF on 18 May.

2014

BWF implements an Instant Review System on 4 April after testing out a number of systems in 2013. Players can challenge line judge calls.

2014

Japan's historic Thomas Cup Finals victory on 25 May - joining only three other winners (Malaysia, Indonesia and China) since the first Thomas Cup in 1948/49.

2014

Sydney hosts a Superseries event for the first time on 24 Jun - a new location and region for the Superseries, now hosted in Asia, Europe and Oceania.

2014

BWF turns 80 on 5 July with the last five years since its 75th anniversary being one of the most successful periods in its history.

2014

BWF President Poul-Erik Høyer becomes an IOC Member on 7 February and joins BWF Council colleagues who have had this honour conferred on them: Li Lingwei (2012) and Dagmawit Girmay Berhane (2013).

2014

Badminton becomes a Paralympic sport on 7 October - to be hosted for the first time at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.